From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:32:07 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <7bb96b8b13743503be8ff3da9c090cd9@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <61BB2336-8262-4E45-B14A-F313CEA50EF1@fastmail.fm> References: <61BB2336-8262-4E45-B14A-F313CEA50EF1@fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Topicbox-Message-UUID: f567df4e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Oh, yeah, lets all learn about namespaces and the counterintuitive > things they do and don't do, and compiling and everything to do when > it goes wrong, and a billion other things JUST to save devs having to > work out a good solution! mmm. i don't know of any counterintuative things that namespaces do. do you have an example? further, you're going to have to know how namespaces work to use plan 9 interactively or as a developer. i think the valid — and deep — question here is how complicated a namespace one wishes to construct. i see practical limits to how many entries a human can understand. the machine of course, doesn't care. - erik